Requires focus
like knitting
No, not really
We all can do better
rejects acceptied pieties
throwing customs to the four winds
but that doesn't ring true
no bird out of a gilded cage flew...
it's just luck, I can't express it
when writing comes together
When every key your fingers measure
unlocks the reader's pleasure
Categories:
pieties, magic, together, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Juan tells you he is an immigrant, northern mexico
that he learned to speak english in iowa
and these coupled are the reason
Juan's accent is different
Juan is not mexican
Juan lives in fear of americans
Juan in america is a raghead
a camel jockey, sand
this is not unique to america
the world is filled with such
infidel, hymie, gentile, untouchable
the word hardly matters
the effect is achieved
somewhere in the stratum
there is a lesser being
and while all are not as such
there are more than enough
to keep men such as Juan
ashamed of their heritage
the most segregated hour is 10 a.m.
on sunday morning, those easy pieties
of the church bizarre
mr. jackson sits in front of his mirror
in a prominent section of los angeles
mutilating himself into a white man
sometimes society is so successful
in its emasculation
we become our own honkey
then again, how can we be asked
to give up our
when even god seems to refuse
Phoenix 93
Categories:
pieties, anti bullying, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Released royale Holy King
Eternal mercies granted rise
Sured solemnly saves mankind a assured Savior
Unexpected deliverers soul deliver rise
Reprieve return to the Father to make a place for us
Return to the Father reprieve us, thank you for saving us
Ecclesiestical Lord early champion lifesaver rise
Calls on choicest mercies Christ sympathies
Tender, tenderest mercies of blessing rise
Incarnate saviour delivers His word
Outward praise to the Father outward mercies to the people rise
Noble Lord, noble rescuer, noble Savior rise
Domestic pieties rose against the sinners
Able helper absolute Lord grants absolute pardons rise
Young deliverer Savior of thee entire world didn't die, He rose, today
Categories:
pieties, analogy, forgiveness, grave, jesus,
Form: Acrostic
He earned over a million in 2016
Then he did it again in 2017...
Did he redistribute his earnings to the poor
Did he sacrifice any creature comforts to cure
All the world's ills, which we know --
'Cos Comrade Bernie's told us so --
Requires replacing evil capitalist societies
With Comrade Bernie's socialist pieties
Categories:
pieties, money, philosophy, satire, society,
Form: Rhyme
Pieties performed, the mourners turn away;
Trying to forget that they'll be back some future day,
But will not have power to walk away.
Categories:
pieties, funeral,
Form: Rhyme